PESHAWAR: A woman gave birth to five children in a private hospital in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lower Dir region on Sunday.According to the private hospital's chief executive doctor, Shaukat Ali, a woman......
ATHENS: Greece weighed drastic banking restrictions to stave off a financial collapse on Sunday as anxious Greeks emptied cash machines amid fears that banks will be closed this week.Long queues of......
JERUSALEM: The world's Jewish population has grown to be nearly as large as it was before the Holocaust, an Israeli think tank said in its annual report Sunday.The Jewish People Policy Institute said......
QUETTA: An Anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Sunday indicted exiled Baloch leader Hyarbyar Marri and 32 others for attacking Quaid-i-Azam’s residency in Ziarat in June 2013.ATC judge Nauroz Khan Hoot has......
KABUL: US military air strikes have targeted militants who were threatening international coalition forces near the border in eastern Afghanistan, a US forces spokesman said on Sunday.Most foreign......
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait on Sunday identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shia mosque as a Saudi national, after a series of arrests in connection with the blast that left 26 dead.Know more:......
Pakistan hopes of finishing second in Pool A were dashed by a spirited France side as the teams played out a 2-2 draw on day 8 of the Hockey World League Semi-finals in Antwerp, Belgium, on......
KARACHI: Although the searing heat of last week has passed, high temperatures claimed another 20 lives in the city today.According to Sindh health department statistics, since June 20, a total of......
Sri Lanka require 153 runs for a series-levelling victory after Pakistan rode Azhar Ali's obdurate century before being all out for 329 on day four of the second test on Sunday.Ali scored a......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka require 153 runs for a series-levelling victory after Pakistan rode Azhar Ali's dogged century before being all out for 329 on day four of the second Test on Sunday.Heavy rain......
TAIPEI: Witnesses described the scene at a Taiwan water park as “hell” after a ball of fire ripped through a crowd, with authorities putting the number of injured at more than 500 on Sunday, almost......
RIYADH: A Saudi soldier was killed in a rocket attack on the kingdom's border with Yemen, where Riyadh is leading an air war against Iran-backed rebels, the interior ministry said.The rocket fire in......
DUBAI: HSBC Bank Oman has agreed to sell its banking business in Pakistan to Meezan Bank , a sharia-compliant Pakistani lender, it said on Sunday.The deal, which is subject to regulatory and other......
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaiti police have arrested the driver who transported a suicide bomber to a Shia mosque where he blew himself up, killing 26 and injuring 227 in an attack claimed by the Islamic State......
PESHAWAR: Despite launch of the traffic warden service by the police department the traffic situation in the provincial metropolis is likely to worsen as the transport department continues to issue......
PESHAWAR: Around half of the questions placed on the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly’s agenda in the recently ended parliamentary year lapsed mostly due to the absence of their movers in the house.In the......
UPPER DIR: The local administration on Saturday fined 50 shopkeepers and jailed three meat sellers for violating the official pricelist.Assistant commissioner, Dir, Khawja Fahim Sajjad, on the......
MARDAN: Residents are forced to purchase petrol at Rs120 to Rs150 per litre owing to shortage of petroleum products in different parts of the district, it is learnt.Petrol mafia is blamed for......
PESHAWAR: A local court on Saturday convicted a person on the charge of running an illegal Voice over Internet Protocol gateway exchange in the provincial capital and sentenced him to one year......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has asked the divisional administration of Malakand to conduct a complete survey of the loss of lives and property that occurred due to flash floods in Upper......
KHAR: The political administration of Bajaur Agency on Saturday asked the tribal elders to enhance security of mosques and other public places in their respective areas to prevent any untoward......
PESHAWAR: Taking exception to low gas pressure in parts of Peshawar during Ramazan, adviser to the prime minister Engineer Amir Muqam on Saturday directed the Sui Northern Gas Company Limited (SNGPL)......
KARAK: Heavy downpour coupled with hailstorm played havoc in Chountra area here on Saturday, damaging standing crops and vegetables.The rain and hailstorm started in the afternoon and continued for......
MANSEHRA: Electric supply to Dasu, the district headquarters of Kohistan, have been suspended due to delay in the completion of work on Wapda’s main power transmission line from Puttan to Dasu.The......
SWABI: Leaders of various political parties have called for joint efforts to check deaths caused by heat wave in Karachi.The representatives of PPP, PTI, ANP and Qaumi Watan Party also emphasised......
ISLAMABAD: Days after announcing the first-ever local government elections in the federal capital, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has now approached the Supreme Court, asking it to direct......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has challenged a district and sessions court orders imposing a fine on his attorney Babar Awan and summoning his reply in the Rs20......
ISLAMABAD: For years, David Boon, 26, a resident of France Colony, a slum in Sector F-7/4, was always concerned about his community’s problems but whenever he raised his voice, he never felt heard by......
TAXILA: The shortage of doctors, especially gynecologist, surgeon, woman medical officer, and other facilities in public hospitals in Taxila and Wah Cantt has made a mockery of the Punjab......
Student envoys ready to depart for USEvery year, thousands of Pakistanis travel abroad for university studies. Most go on their own with their families bearing the cost of their education while a......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has started work on the preparation of targets for itself and win a maximum share of the Rs1 billion special fund allocated by the prime......
Her nickname “Abiha” is still pasted on the wall with shining plastic tapes of different colours. More than a dozen men are squatting on the floor of the same room where I met 13-year-old Nalain......
It’s a slow start for political parties in Punjab: local body elections in the province are scheduled on September 20, but the hot summers and the prolonged delimitation process and are already......
Crossing the King Hussein Bridge, I enter the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Strategically placed sharpshooters from the Israeli border police watch with hawk-eyes buses carrying people from Jordan to......
By the end of December 1983, it appeared that the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD) was in no mood to surrender despite its political activists serving jail terms and also being......
In the workplace as well as at home we are so inclined to use Google search, Gmail and Google Chrome browser that it is difficult to imagine life without these products. From powering tasks at work......
When you go out during the day time your skin, being the largest organ of the human body, is constantly exposed to the sun; and although many of its effects are useful for the human body, over......
Few outside Afghanistan realise that pasta, in various forms, is a staple dish of this beautiful, and troubled country and even fewer know that Afghan treatment of something as simple as spaghetti......
Dear Auntie, I am a teenager fed up of my life. We are a family of five with me as the eldest daughter and two brothers after me. Our family is totally a failure. My parents don’t make a good couple......
Q. I have a lovely large sunny terrace and wish to grow a mix of herbs, fragrant plants and flowering plants. A mosquito repelling plant would also be ideal. Can you make some suggestions? The area......
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483 -1520), commonly known as Raphael, painted ‘Saint George and the Dragon’ oil on panel, (11 1/4 inches x 8 7/16 inches) in 1506 when he was only 23 years old. This......
If war is the historic province of men, then rebuilding after the devastation of conflict is something that falls to women. Theirs is an untold story of untiring efforts to restore the normalcy that......
For a bowler to be swept away is no joke. A crafty spinner like Sri Lanka’s Muralitharan pitches a flighty ball on the off stump hoping that it will curl away enough to either take the edge or hit......
Contrary to what many people think, Salman Khan does know how to plug a film. But he does that in the most unfussy of ways. These days the actor is promoting his upcoming movie Bajrangi Bhaijaan......
Although Bilal Maqsood is being tight-lipped about it, the media has been claiming that the new lineup for the new season of Coke Studio is all but out. And it includes some names that were once,......
We all know how fickle the world of showbiz can be. ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is the idiom that comes to mind.Rajesh Khanna is considered to be the first super star of Indian cinema. When the late......
It is difficult to label it superstition. The wafer-thin Bollywood sensation Shraddha Kapoor believes that every time her father, Shakti Kapoor (Indian cinema’s villain of villains) watches the first......
My word, that’s what happens when you graduate from a regional fraternity like Bollywood to an international industry like Hollywood. Actor Irrfan Khan has done quite a few Hollywood films and is now......
Angelina Jolie-Pitt (yes, she also uses her hubby’s name now) has a heart of gold, or so it seems.On June 19, she took her nine-year-old daughter Shiloh to Lebanon only to meet a 12-year-old Syrian......
While on a recent trip to Germany, I had the chance to catch up with the mutual friend of an old buddy of mine.The buddy’s name was Nasir and we were members of a progressive student outfit at a......
For years now, the French film-maker and photographer, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, has been documenting how the fossil fuel era has exacted a heavy cost on the earth’s fragile environment. To show how......
Concerned and rather depressed about the communal situation in Sindh, Koli, a Hindu friend of mine from Hyderabad called me up when in 2014 some miscreants burnt a Hindu temple in Larkana and......
Lahore’s commercial theatre, which thrives on racy dialogues and suggestive dances, is perhaps the most unnoticed platform of gender discrimination.Here, women are exploited in the name of comedy in......
If you are like me, visiting the zoo leaves you with mixed emotions. On one hand, you enjoy the spectacle of it all; the dangerously toothy wild creatures in close proximity are an awesome sight, on......
The charge-sheet against the Bollywood badshahs, rajas and vizirs involved in anti-social activities runs long: driving under the influence, manslaughter, sexual assault, possession of drugs,......
Despite the scorching sun, they arrive in their multitudes; fakirs and folk singers, land owners and the landless, political officials, businessmen, traders and vendors, the well-heeled and......
At first, after the Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2005 had lapsed, it seemed as if there were only two stakeholders in the process of local governance: the ruling duo of the Pakistan People’s......
Although most calls Dr Jehan Ara* receives are of an urgent nature, the call she received 17 hours before local government polls on May 30 left her in shock. The office of Peshawar’s deputy......
TWELVE-year-old Changez’s fresh narrative voice propels the story in Shandana Minhas’s madcap adventure Survival Tips for Lunatics. Billed as a children’s book, Survival Tips will earn many a nod of......
ORIGINALLY published by Vostochnaya Literatura in 2013, Russian scholar Anna Suvorova’s anthropological analysis of Benazir Bhutto was re-published this year with an English translation by Pakistan’s......
NOVELIST Khalid Javaid is obsessed with death and disease, and has a gloomy outlook. His art lies in turning morbidity into fiction with a writing style so engaging and prose so polished that they......
GHAZAAL in Arabic and Persian refers to a small, graceful, swift antelope with long ringed horns and black face markings. The beautiful, melting eyes of a doe are compared to the eyes of a beautiful......
MUHAMMAD Amir Rana’s new book The Militant: Development of a Jihadi Character in Pakistan is not for the faint-hearted, nor for those who prefer to take solace in simplistic, linear explanations for......
Schoolboy finds a new planet in our galaxyTOM Wagg, a 15-year-old British schoolboy on work experience at Keele University found a new planet two years ago.Wagg was on work when he spotted a tiny......
“STUDENTS, please listen! Kindly submit your old books, bags and school uniforms, with due permission of your parents and only if you don’t need it for your relatives or siblings!” Ms Maha, a senior......
WE have covered quite a long distance in our journey across the realm of astronomy. But the fact is that we have barely begun, or, as they say, just scratched the surface. It is like a few million......
FATHERS are the protectors, guides and providers of their families. With them, we just feel safe and secure; they teach us valuable lessons and how to deal with the world. And our dads are not the......
IN the modern world, weather conditions are predicted well before they occur and safety measures are taken in advance. When there were clear forecasts about an intense heat wave, why was no planning......
I WANT to draw the attention of the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination regarding the unjustified treatment meted out to me during my contract as N-STOP officer with......
Apropos the letter, ‘Allotment of forest land’ (June 26). On the one hand, Pakistan proclaims its international commitments to combating climate change though programmes such as the UN REDD Programme......
I was watching a TV programme which was about an old people’s home. It was sad to see two old ladies narrate their tale but having only best wishes for their children.It is unfortunate to see that......
MR Ahsan Yahya, who died on June 22 in Karachi after a protracted illness, should not have been ignored with a two-para obituary in Dawn, a newspaper he served for over 50 years without any......
A ray of hope had emerged when the PTI, riding on a mandate of transparency and accountability, enacted for the first time ever in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Right to Information Act in November 2013.This......
I served as a doctor in the army and then in Saudi Arabia. My experience in the army is that you will never suffer a heat stroke if you are adequately hydrated and have enough salt in your body.New......
Apropos the picture and news report on Imran Khan’s visit to Jinnah Hospital, Karachi (June 26).The emergency department was closed to patients owing to the security arrangements made for his visit.......
My nephew Ali Asif loves fast cars and now works for a Japanese car company, who as fate would have it has been posted to Tokyo. He has been sending me hundreds of messages and pictures on my......
LAHORE: An election tribunal on Saturday adjourned till June 30 hearing of a petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan challenging victory of National Assembly Speaker Sardar......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: A man and four children died when a car plunged into Abbasia Canal near Kot Samaba, some 19 kilometres from here, on Saturday.Shafiqur Rehman Kalyar, along with the four children, was......
LAHORE: The flour prices seem to have shot through the roof this Ramazan; in the first week of the holy month, the price of a 20kg flour bag has gone up by a whopping Rs30, with government,......
LAHORE: The Punjab University Syndicate on Saturday quashed the bachelor’s degree of Abdul Qadir Gilani, the eldest son of former PM Yousuf Raza Gilani, on charges of impersonation.Appearing in the......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Jahangir Tareen has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court challenging new delimitation done by the Punjab government for local body elections in the......
LAHORE: The Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project (Ali Town–Dera Gujran) will have both positive and negative impacts during the construction and operational phases and the experts have recommended......
LAHORE: The Punjab University (PU) Syndicate decided on Saturday that there would be no increase in tuition fee for on-campus students and another Rs10 million would be utilised for research. It......
LAHORE: The PPP said on Saturday the the ruling PML-N had become politically isolated after the unity of the opposition on the issue of loadshedding.“The opposition parties are representing the......
LAHORE: The district and sessions court on Saturday awarded death sentence to a man and life imprisonment to his accomplice in a murder case.Police produced convicts Aijaz alias Jaji and his......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Traders at a mobile phone market closed their outlets on Saturday after some fruit vendors smashed windowpanes of their shops.Police said some shopkeepers restrained fruit vendors......
BAHAWALPUR: The ‘surplus and retrenched’ employees of the local bodies in Bahawalpur division will be absorbed in various local government institutions (within division) after the old structure of......
OKARA: The Saddar police registered a case on Saturday against 160 activists of Anjuman-i-Mazareen of Punjab (AMP) for taking unlawful possession of the land of retired Col Sanaullah in village......
SIALKOT: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan’s wife Reham Khan spent her Saturday with the children of the SOS village near Khambraanwala.The children were delighted to see her among them......
LAHORE: Two people were killed in separate road accidents in different areas of the city on Saturday.In the first incident, a rickshaw driver, Abdul Khaliq, was injured when a car hit his......
GUJRANWALA: A special judicial magistrate acquitted PML-N leader Salman Khalid, alias Pomi Butt, and 10 others of stone pelting on Saturday.Police had registered a case against Pomi and others for......
GUJRAT: The Punjab government has finally posted Rai Zameerul Haq as the district police officer (DPO) here after transferring him from Muzaffargarh on Saturday.The post had been lying vacant since......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The construction work of roads and boundary wall of Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT), Rahim Yar Khan, has been suspended because the......
KARACHI: The machine vibrates and hums as Mohammad Rafiq pours grain down its squarish funnel. And at the other end his young assistant collects the flour, which comes out, to be transferred into a......
KARACHI: The media adviser to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman, Imran Ismail, on Saturday approached the Civil Lines police station to lodge an FIR against Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali......
KARACHI: Power supply to a large part of Karachi’s central district was disrupted for hours after a fire broke out at a K-Electric grid station in Federal B Area on Saturday afternoon.Due to the grid......
KARACHI: As most of the over 300 unidentified victims of the punishing heatwave were buried by the Edhi Foundation by Saturday evening, the continuing death of heatstroke victims — 55 in Karachi and......
HYDERABAD: Mithi Senior Civil Judge Mian Fayyaz Rabbani, who has been appointed the relief inspecting judge by the Sindh High Court, has apprehended that Tharparkar may be hit by drought again this......
HYDERABAD: A robber was killed in an encounter with police at Ganju Takar behind Zeal Pak factory within the jurisdiction of the Site police station late on Friday night.Site SHO Ali Mohammad Mughal......
MIRPURKHAS: A one-and-a-half-year-old boy was electrocuted in Qaim Para, Digri town, on Saturday.According to reports received here, the victim identified as Ayaz had touched the uncovered wire of a......
HYDERABAD: The president of the Qaumi Awami Tehreek (QAT), Ayaz Latif Palijo, has demanded that the government impose a ban on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and eliminate its militant wing in the wake......
KARACHI: Friends, relatives and colleagues poured their hearts out as they went down memory lane at a condolence reference held at the Arts Council on Saturday evening to pay homage to eminent poet,......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday dismissed the bail applications of two accused in the Arshad Pappu murder case.The two accused — then inspector Yusuf Baloch and Zakir Dada —moved their......
KARACHI: Teachers of the NED University of Engineering and Technology and Karachi University (KU) on Saturday demanded that the government immediately release funds to their institutions, which they......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday remanded a man in police custody in a case pertaining to the killing of a Muttahida Qaumi Movement activist during a Rangers raid on the party’s Nine Zero......
KARACHI: An eyewitness on Saturday picked out a suspect during an identification parade before a judicial magistrate in a case pertaining to an attempted murder attack on a US national.Saad Aziz, an......
PORT KANTAOUI: Planeloads of shocked foreign tourists flew out of Tunisia on Saturday after a beachside massacre claimed by the self-styled Islamic State killed 38 people and prompted a major......
PARIS: French police were grilling a suspected Islamist on Saturday about an attack in which the man displayed his boss’s severed head, as it emerged he may have sent a “selfie” of the......
LONDON: Britain said on Saturday that at least 15 of its citizens were killed in the attack on a Tunisian beach resort, its worst loss of life in a terror incident since the 2005 London......
ADEN: Fire erupted at Aden’s oil refinery on Saturday when rebels shelled the nearby port to prevent a Qatari ship carrying aid for Yemen’s devastated second city from docking, officials said.“The......
KUWAIT CITY: Thousands of Kuwaitis braved scorching summer heat on Saturday to attend the funerals of 18 out of 26 victims of a Shia mosque bombing claimed by the self-styled Islamic State.The bodies......
WARSAW: Feminist activists on Saturday sent a drone from Germany to Poland carrying abortion pills to highlight the staunchly Catholic country’s restrictive abortion laws.The pills are not available......
MADRID: Weather stations across Spain are warning people to take extra precautions as a heatwave engulfs much of the country, increasing the risk of wildfires.The country’s meteorological agency says......
CAIRO: Egypt faced treacherous weather conditions on Saturday as a sandstorm blanketed the north of the country and a magnitude-5.2 earthquake centered in the Sinai peninsula shook buildings more......
NEW YORK: Hundreds of police closed in Saturday on a convicted murderer who busted out of a maximum-security New York prison, a day after authorities shot dead his fellow escapee in a three-week......
TAIPEI: More than 200 people were injured, over 80 of them seriously, in an explosion at a water park outside Taiwan’s capital Taipei on Saturday after coloured powder being sprayed onto a crowd......
SALT LAKE CITY: The decades-long debate about whether same-sex marriage should be allowed in the United States was finally settled on Friday when the US Supreme Court ruled gay and lesbian couples......
FORMER Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, who died on Friday, was once Vladimir Putin’s most credible rival for the Russian presidency. Had he won, Russia probably would have embarked on its......
BAMAKO: Suspected Islamist fighters attacked a town in western Mali near the border with neighbouring Mauritania before dawn on Saturday, leaving up to 11 people dead, including three soldiers and......
BAGHDAD: A series of attacks targeting public places killed 12 people in Baghdad on Saturday, said Iraqi authorities, as the prime minister announced the arrest of an aide to Saddam Hussein.Police......
MUMBAI: India’s series defeat to lowly ranked Bangladesh has allegedly brought to the fore the sense of insecurity and disquiet some team members have been experiencing, Times Of India has......
GENEVA: Sepp Blatter says his decision to leave FIFA was “liberating” and he expects the election to replace him will be in early 2016.In an interview published on Saturday, Blatter explained why on......
VINA DEL MAR: Four years after his miss in a penalty shootout sent Argentina spinning out of the Copa America, Carlos Tevez slammed home the winning spot kick against Colombia on Friday to book his......
OTTAWA: Footballing giants Germany and the United States set up a much-anticipated semi-final clash in the Women’s World Cup on Friday by beating France and China respectively.But the world’s top two......
ASSEN: Valentino Rossi strengthened his world championship lead on Saturday by coming out on top in a thrilling battle with Marc Marquez to win the Dutch MotoGP at Assen.The Italian, on his Yamaha,......
Candyland record first victoryKARACHI: Candyland scored their first victory in the third Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cricket Tournament when they outclassed Jahanian Tigers CC by 136 runs late on Friday......
KARACHI: Pakistan limited-overs players Anwar Ali and Saad Nasim played key part in inspiring Omar Associates to victory over National Bank in the final of the inaugural Mezan Tea T20......
EUGENE: Tyson Gay is back on top as America’s 100 metres champion, but he had to run down teenager Trayvon Bromell for the honour at the US world championships trials here on Friday.The victory, in......
LONDON: England captain Alastair Cook believes winning this summer’s Ashes series would be his “best achievement”.Cook has endured some torrid days since leading England to a 3-0 series win at home......
KARACHI: Jakarta-bound Pakistan Davis Cup quartet suffered a severe blow on Friday following knee injury to tennis celebrity Aisam-ul-Haq that compelled him to pull out of ATP Tennis Championship at......
COLOMBO: Pakistan’s batsmen bounced back after the first innings debacle to throw open the second Test against Sri Lanka at the P. Sara Oval here on Thursday.The tourists, who conceded a lead of 177......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan great Kumar Sangakkara will quit international cricket during the Test series against India, the island nation’s most prolific batsman said on Saturday.“I have decided to call it......
LAHORE: Lanky Test fast bowler Mohammad Irfan has been recalled to the National Cricket Academy (NCA) to keep him away from playing further domestic Ramazan cricket, as he is most likely to be......
BRIDGETOWN: Rule changes affecting 50-over one-day and Twenty20 International matches will take effect in July, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced.The aim of the altered......
CANTERBURY: Fast bowler Mitchell Johnson continued to look in good form as Australia strengthened their grip on Kent in their Ashes tour opener at Canterbury on Saturday.Kent were dismissed for 280......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Sports Board on Friday released a bumper 24 million rupees for the medal winners of the last Asian Games which were held in Incheon, South Korea in September 2014.In a landmark......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s export of merchandise fell short of target by over $2.8 billion in the outgoing fiscal year. It was the third consecutive year in which the ruling PML-N failed to achieve the......
NEW YORK: The opening of China’s markets has the potential to boost global holdings of the nation’s onshore bonds four-fold to as much as $500 billion in five years, JPMorgan Chase & Co......
ATHENS: The Greek crisis has been punctuated by deadlines that have come and gone without any change in the country’s position within the euro region.The latest one is June 30, when Greece’s current......
KARACHI: Amid increased demand during Ramazan, red meat retailers have pushed up the prices of veal meat (bachiya/young cow) by Rs20-40 per kg and mutton (goat) by Rs50 per kg.Consumers are already......
BEIJING: China’s central bank said on Saturday it would again reduce interest rates by 25 basis points, its fourth such cut since November as it tries to boost growth.The benchmark interest rate......
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Gem Merchants and Jewellers Association (APGMJA) has contested imposition of infrastructure cess on gold imports by the Sindh government, arguing that the yellow metal is......
CARACAS: Venezuela has signed an agreement with Iran for a $500 million credit line to fund joint investments and help improve supplies of goods “necessary for the Venezuelan people,” President......
RIYADH: The budding relationship between Riyadh and Moscow is faced with a reality check.In the rapidly changing geopolitical environment, Saudi Arabia and Russia are forging ahead — fostering a......
FRANKFURT: The top executives of many a corporate giant must feel like the fictional character Gulliver, waking up to find themselves under attack from modern-day Lilliputians, small start-up......
LONDON: Oil prices rose over the week despite the crude market facing pressure from high supplies, as traders awaited deals over Greece’s bailout and Iran’s nuclear programme.OIL: The weekly US......
ZURICH: Switzerland’s private banks are close to ridding themselves of undeclared European accounts, a salutary process but one which has undermined efforts to grow their businesses.Following the......
LONDON: The head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Saturday his institution hoped to have its first joint projects with the new $100 billion China-led Asian......
DHAKA: Summit Group, the leading power generator in Bangladesh, will invest at least $1 billion to build five power plants capable of producing 1,310 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2020, aiming to......
HONG KONG: India’s piecemeal approach to fixing its banking sector is flawed.The government may double the amount it will inject into state lenders to $3bn this year, and again next year. Though the......
QUETTA: Balochistan Governor Mohammad Khan Achakzai has called for promoting sport activities in the province to send a message of peace to the nation.Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the All......
KARACHI: Unmoved by criticism from political parties and other segments of society over poor governance and mismanagement of institutions which aggravated the punishing heatwave in Karachi, the PPP......
ISLAMABAD: Rumours that a Scotland Yard investigation team had arrived in the country — ostensibly to interrogate suspects in the Imran Farooq murder case — were circulating on Saturday.A list of six......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has proposed amendments in the income tax return forms and wealth statement for the tax year 2015.Draft amendments proposed through a notification......
QUETTA: A law-enforcement agency man reportedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his official rifle in Dera Bugti on Saturday.According to a Levies source, Omar Gul was deployed in Sangila......
QUETTA: A girl was killed when a vehicle hit her on Quetta-Chaman national highway in Kuchlak tehsil on Saturday.Police said the girl was crossing the road near Simli village when she was knocked......
THE skies over Gilgit were lit with fireworks and rattled with gunfire for hours on Friday night as people celebrated the swearing-in of Gligit-Baltistan’s second elected chief minister, Hafiz......
KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency claimed on Saturday to have arrested eight employees of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation for allegedly running a racket worth millions of rupees in......
ISLAMABAD: The newly-constituted Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power plans to call senior officials of K-Electric (KE) to discuss the issue of power cuts that has contributed to hundreds of......
BEIRUT: Kurdish forces drove fighters of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group from the flashpoint Syrian border town of Kobane on Saturday, after a killing spree by the militants left more than......
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has urged political parties to launch a joint struggle to restore an atmosphere free of fear in Karachi.“Neither the courts nor the journalists are......
VIENNA: Top diplomats warned on Saturday of ‘hard work’ ahead to seal a nuclear deal with Iran, as France insisted three key conditions to put an atomic bomb out of Tehran’s reach still had to be......
BRUSSELS: Greece hurtled towards default and a possible euro exit on Saturday after Europe responded to the leftist government’s announcement of a surprise referendum by refusing to extend the......
KARACHI: According to a heavily redacted transcript of what is believed to be a three-year-old police interrogation of a London-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader, the MQM had been receiving......
ISLAMABAD: Leaked Saudi diplomatic cables reveal that the country’s embassy in Islamabad remained in touch with the Haqqani network and also helped arrange a visit for the militant group’s leader for......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has held that the massive expenses incurred on the palatial President House, Prime Minister’s House or the various Governor’s houses, as well as the extravagant......
PESHAWAR: Four sisters were shot dead and a son of one of them was injured allegedly by some neighbours over a monetary dispute in Kachi Mohalla here on Saturday.Fazal Hussain and his sons allegedly......
IN theory, it is a significant concession by the state, addressing one of the principal demands of militants in Balochistan: along with the release of the so-called missing persons in the province,......
FRIDAY’S deadly events illustrate the capacity of the self-styled Islamic State to wreak havoc across regions beyond its direct control, as well as the need for a coordinated response from the......
FOUR budgets have been passed following a walkout by the opposition in the National Assembly as well as in the legislatures of three provinces — Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In fact, the......
THE month of Ramazan is one of the seasons which militants use to secure their yearly finances. While extremist and militant groups are set to raise funds during the holy month, the government has......
TO the average, apolitical observer, the politics of Sindh makes little sense. MQM in Karachi, Hyderabad; PPP in interior Sindh — it adds up to quite the horror show.Sure, the mercenary politics of......
THE Ravi has been a source of life and well-being for the people of the districts of Lahore, Sahiwal, Vehari, Khanewal, Multan and beyond, but today the river has turned into a stream of......
FOR Ali Baksh, a 55-year-old farmer in Sindh, tending the land is a special form of worship. It takes devotion, consistency and a lot of soul. He’s been sowing and harvesting crop since he was a......
